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The following image (which just appeared in the "march of life") seems to have lost the "hidden" flag imposed by a curator 4 months ago. Any idea what's going on? Are the EoL servers losing track of some of this curation activity? http://eol.org/data_objects/19177664

(additional comment: it seems as if some of the exemplar settings are being lost too. I've just had to reset http://eol.org/data_objects/25803884 as an exemplar for the species, even though it was previously selected by 2 other curators as the species exemplar. Until a few minutes ago, http://eol.org/data_objects/26390484 was showing as the exemplar for this species, even though no curators specifically chose it to be so)

@Yan Wong: I'm not familiar with Tsetse Fly, but David Bygott's photos have invariably been correctly identified for species that I am familiar with, so I'd think it safe to trust on that basis. His pics are also of excellent quality, among the best on EoL.

I made a mistake that I can't seem to fix. I added a link to a video of Cross River gorillas to the Resources section, but occasionally my links don't always seem to stick. Thus, I attempted to add a link again to the resources page, and now there's two links to the same video. Could someone please remove the second link? http://eol.org/pages/10372989/resources/multimedia_links#data_object_31851677 Thank you and sorry for the mistake!

@Yan Wong: Might be easier to ask NOAA to change their photostream to allow others to tag (one blanket change). Then EOL could just set up a harvest from their photostream of anything that is taxo-tagged. If they are willing to open up to tagging in general.

@Yan Wong: That would be good, though I fear that - because of cuts in funding - NOAA probably don't have anyone who can spare the time to add the relevant photos to the EoL Group. If they blanket-added everything in their photostream to the EoL Group, we'd be left wading through hundreds (? thousands) of irrelevant photos (like this) of no use to us. Tricky!

@Yan Wong: I think you can add taxonomic tags to images in the EOL Flickr group if you are an admin of the group. Or, if the owner of the image has allowed others to (generally) add tags to their images.

@Yan Wong: Bob is right, Yan- the rate determining step is to get names on the media. We've talked with NOAA contacts a few times about content and we have some fabulous images from the Gulf of Mexico thanks to them. But they tend to be busy, so things like taxon annotations can be asking a lot.

I've uploaded a couple to Commons as starters (for ones where I knew the species name); I didn't get any 'already at commons' warning, so (at least the newer ones) aren't in general on yet:here and here